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This book sketches the growth of Christianity during the Portuguese period (1511-1605), it presents a fair account of developments under the Dutch colonial administration (1605-1942) and is more elaborate for the period of the Indonesian Republic (since 1945).
- Karel Steenbrink
- August 31, 2008
This study emphasises the importance of Christianity as an integral part of the history of Indonesian nation-building. It also has significance and relevance for Christianity, and how people of different religions should live together in Indonesia.
- James Haire
Islam. Its Christian community, about 9% of the population, has received no overall description in English. It was mostly Dutch and German, besides Indo-nesian, surveys that pictured the solid and sometimes exceptional development of global Christianity in this country, fourth in the world as to population
In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The split can be violent or nonviolent but results in at least one of the two newly-created bodies considering itself distinct from the other.
This book sketches the growth of Christianity during the Portuguese period (1511-1605), it presents a fair account of developments under the Dutch colonial administration (1605-1942) and is more elaborate for the period of the Indonesian Republic (since 1945).
- Karel Steenbrink, Jan S. Aritonang
- 2008
A History of Christianity in Indonesia is encyclopedic, as the editors admit (p. vii). Ranging over more than one thousand pages, it traces the story of Indonesian Christianity from its earliest signs in the ninth century (pp. 4-6) to 2005.
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Book Review: Uwe Hummel and Tuhoni Telaumbanua, Cross and Adu: A Socio-Historical Study on the Encounter between Christianity and the Indigenous Culture on Nias and the Batu Islands, Indonesia (1865-1965), 2007.